Chamberlain jail release marked
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“I waited patiently for the Lord. He turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire. He sets my feet on a rock.” With those words from Psalm 40, the Seventh-day Adventist congregation at Cooranbong, near Newcastle, on Saturday celebrated the release from prison of Lindy Chamberlain, one of their number. Most of the people of the peaceful Seventh-day Adventist-dominated mountain town turned out for the service.
Wearing their neatest white shirts or pressed skirts, they gathered in the coolness of the church to offer thanks for the freedom of their friend. Some sobbed and others
mutted “Amen,” during the service. Mrs Chamberlain was released from Berrimah jail in Darwin on Friday after serving three years of a life sentence for the alleged murder of her daughter Azaria. She has denied the killing, saying a dingo took her baby at Ayers Rock in 1980. The Northern Territory Government cut short her prison term when Azaria’s sun-bleached jacket, a key piece of missing evidence, was uncovered at Ayers Rock last Monday. A new inquiry into the case will begin soon. An elder of the Church said at the service: “We pray that when this family is reunited, the things of the past will be forgotten and their lives will blossom out.”
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Press, 10 February 1986, Page 2
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228Chamberlain jail release marked Press, 10 February 1986, Page 2
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